Introduction to LoCloud

International TAG CLOUD Project WorkshopDigital Heritage, 29 September, 2015

Granada, Spain

Intro to

Holly WrightArchaeology Data Service

University of York, UK

LoCloud Video

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• Best practice network funded by the EU under the CIP ICT PSP programme

• 1st March 2013 to 29th February 2016 • 33 partners in 26 countries• Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway

• Project management: 2Culture Associates, UK

• Strong group of technical partners

• National and regional aggregation services, and individual content providers

http://www.locloud.eu International TAG CLOUD Project

http://www.locloud.eu/

Main goals

• Was developed based on the findings of EuropeanaLocal and CARARE

• Supporting small and medium-sized institutions in making their content available to Europeana

• Creating technical solutions suitable for smaller institutions• Exploring the potential of cloud-computing technologies• Creating a variety of metadata enrichment services• Providing support, guidance and training

International TAG CLOUD Project

Innovating the aggregation infrastructure and exploring the potential of the cloud:

• MINTo Mapping tool with support for multiple metadata schemas

• MORe aggregator framework o Storage layer with decentralized and scaleable componentso Pluggable services for metadata validation and enrichmento User-friendly interface for data providers

• Crawler ready tagging tools

Core Infrastructure


MINT Mapping Tool

• Allows users to map native XML or CSV metadata to one of the Intermediate schemas supported by LoCloud: LIDO, CARARE, EDM.

• Enables content providers to prepare their metadata for publication

• Integrated with MORe


• Aggregation framework– Based on Fedora Commons and Apache Cassandra– Storage layer with decentralized and scaleable

components– Pluggable components– Developers area provides REST API and virtual enrichment

drivers• Cloud-based IaaS

MORehttp://store.locloud.eu


http://store.locloud.eu/

MORe• User-friendly interface allows data providers to select data sources,

manage ingestion, validation, enrichment and publication of their metadata

• Automatic creation of data sources in MINT and LoCloud Collections

http://support.locloud.eu/

Cloud-based micro-services for metadata enrichment and capture: • Geo-location API• Vocabulary service• Historic Place Names service• Geo-coding application• Vocabulary matching service • Background linking service• Wikimedia application

Microservices


http://support.locloud.eu/

Microservices

• Six development teams: AIT, Athena RC, AVINET, IPCHS, UPV/EHU, VUKFC

• All the services are implemented on virtual machines in a cloud testlab (using the OpenNebula cloud computing platform)

• API documentation is available for each service• End-user interfaces are provided for three microservices• Each service has been integrated in MORe


LoGeo API• Uses NER-Name Entity Recognition• Recognizes and returns one or more place names candidates

accompanied by geographical coordinates.


Geo-coding microservice• End-user oriented application• allows institutions to add geographical locations to existing content in a

controlled crowd-sourcing environment and then • load the augmented data back into their original production databases.


• A semi-automatic historical geo-information management function and web service.

• Enables local cultural institutions to collaborate in developing the Thesaurus of HPN and enriching ingested metadata.

• Enables export of selected LoCloud HPN Thesaurus data sets.

Historic Place Names Service


Vocabulary services • Based in TemaTres• Incorporates 29 standard

thesauri • allows users to add and

create vocabularies, and add terms or translations

• add thesauri terms to all items of a metadata package

• Integrated in MORE• Exploited by the LoCloud

vocabulary matching microservice via its API


Vocabulary matching

• Builds on work in the PATHS project (FP7)• Automatically assigns relevant concepts and terms to item records • Retrieves terms from the Vocabulary service


Background linking microservice

• Based on work in PATHS• Follows the Named Entity

Disambiguation approach• Enriches items with links to

external contextual information in DBpedia and Wikipedia


• A web service that uses a REST interface to communicate with Wikimedia commons

• The main functionalities are harvesting content form Wikimedia, parsing the harvested content, and identifying useful entities that can be mapped to the ESE or EDM metadata schemas.

• The mapped ESE / EDM records are then sent to MORe to be delivered to Europeana.

Wikimedia Application


Integration


• Developed by PSNC• Based on the open source Omeka system• Allows users to publish digital objects on-line in a few minutes• Developed and tested in 2014, now available in production• Scalable, user friendly, with OAI-PMH interface• Storage of metadata and content• Incorporates web traffic analytics• Cloud-based SaaS

LoCloud Collectionshttps://locloudhosting.net/


https://locloudhosting.net/

https://locloudhosting.net/

Example

• LoCloud support portal incorporates – user and technical documentation– eLearning materials– Question-and-Answer service– Access to a ticket desk system

http://support.locloud.eu


http://www.locloud.eu/

Summary

• LoCloud has developed services and aggregation infrastructure in the cloud

• These new services are being used to publish content online from smaller data providers and to supply it to Europeana

• Support, guidance and training has been put in place• Current focus is on operational and strategic planning


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